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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011


TOP SECRET – Sensitive

Moreover, this close knit Party elite controlled the levers of power in the DRV government. The following chart shows that as of 1960 all key North Vietnamese leaders -- except one on whose early life U.S. intelligence is not informed -- are known to have been in the ICP in the '30's (or even in predecessor organizations).

LAO DONG - DRV LEADERSHIP IN 1900 15/

Interlocking of top leadership positions in North Vietnam

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